tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89005453148289528112017-08-15T11:26:52.406+01:00Carry The One Blogcarrytheonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08756199086766144327noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900545314828952811.post-6698874614513783452014-05-07T14:17:00.000+01:002014-05-09T12:48:41.125+01:00Quilt Cover Shop Gets its Competitive Edge<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-013b0877-d6d1-50d0-bf74-18795e7902f9" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="http://www.justbedding.com.au/" border="0" src="http://media.justbedding.com.au/media/wysiwyg/logos/logo_jb_3.png" height="50" style="border: none;" title="Just Bedding - Quilt Covers" width="200" /></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>By </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;"><b>Claudia Vilches of Just Bedding</b></span></b></span></span></div><br /><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The time-saving benefits of cloud-based services are no mystery to the majority of online retailers, though busy as we are, there are undoubtedly some areas overlooked within our businesses. As in our case at <a href="http://www.justbedding.com.au/" target="_blank">Just Bedding</a>, a well-known Australian retailer of quilt covers online, where I’m charged with the accounts, amongst other things. Having recently brought a huge competitive edge to our business via automating all our manual accounting efforts, it meant I just had to direct some praise to those responsible and share our story with the uninitiated.</span></div><br /><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My workload used to build up at an alarming rate, manually balancing customer orders with bank transactions and supplier invoices. Keeping the books up-to-scratch consumed the majority of my work week and our MYOB software just wasn’t cutting it, requiring frequent bulk importing of transactional data to it from our Magento installation, a laborious task to say the least–enter Xero.</span></div><br /><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Designed thoughtfully enough to have done away with our hefty end-of-month reconciliation requirement–a task which would cost me at least 15 hours towards the end of each calendar month–Xero now allows me to no longer have to obtain manual copies of all statements and manually cross-reference each transaction with the entries created in MYOB the previous 30 days. Further to that, reports are now far more accurate than ever and available on-demand.</span></div><br /><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The next step towards further streamlining our accounting workflow was automating the way customer orders would import from our website into Xero. By this stage, we already thought we were doing pretty well, having spared ourselves a load of accounting hours, though this recent time-saving revelation left us wanting more. Automating more. This need was realised with the implementation of Carry The One, which automatically syncs customer orders from our Magento installation with our Xero account the very moment they come in. This little feat in automation gloriously resulted in a saving of about 1.5 hours of manual processing each day.</span></div><br /><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To top all this off, we recently began using Receipt Bank, a manual service that uploads all our invoices into Xero the day we get them. These invoices now only need so much as to be scanned and emailed to them - whereby they do all the manual data entering </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">straight in</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">to Xero, under each respective expense account. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Enlisting their service meant an added saving of 4-6 hours a week of uploading these invoices to Xero, creating or referencing each respective expense account, and then filing those receipts.</span></div><br /><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">An unexpected benefit of these streamlining efforts, beyond saving time and money, is that we no longer have to hold paper invoices for taxation purposes. Digital records now suffice in this department–all ours are stored in the cloud and I now take joy in tossing all invoices in the recycle bin and the thought of how I recovered 18 hours from my work week and am doing that little bit more for the environment.</span></div>carrytheonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08756199086766144327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900545314828952811.post-48207337622745121302013-06-17T17:56:00.000+01:002013-06-17T17:56:19.262+01:00Integration with PrestaShop now available<p>We are pleased to announce the addition of PrestaShop to our platform. Link your PrestaShop store with your Xero, KashFlow, FreshBooks or E-conomic account for a seamless accounting experience. Try it out on our <a href="http://www.carrytheone.co.uk/signup.html">30-day free trial</a></p> <p>The integration is also able to import your PrestaShop credit notes to help you cut the admin on processing returns</p> <p><a href="http://www.carrytheone.co.uk/prestashop.html">Click here</a> to find out more about the integration</p>carrytheonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08756199086766144327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900545314828952811.post-41332183443257399252012-10-25T15:48:00.002+01:002012-10-25T15:48:39.885+01:00OpenCart integrations for E-conomic, FreshBooks, KashFlow and Xero Now Available<p>The <a href="http://www.carrytheone.co.uk/opencart.html">OpenCart accountancy integrations</a> are now live.</p><p><a href="http://www.carrytheone.co.uk/signup.html">Sign up for 30-day Free Trial</a> to test drive the integration.</p><p>Please write to us if you have any comments or suggestions.</p>carrytheonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08756199086766144327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900545314828952811.post-87911376362250370262012-10-11T14:48:00.000+01:002012-10-11T14:48:07.874+01:00Announcing Integration with Salesforce<p>We are pleased to announce that our Salesforce integration is now live.</p><p>The CarryTheOne integration platform has passed the Salesforce security review and the AppExchange listing will be going public shortly.</p><p>To find out more about the integration <a href="http://www.carrytheone.co.uk/salesforce.html">click here</a></p>carrytheonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08756199086766144327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900545314828952811.post-57656160737433129982012-05-03T17:18:00.002+01:002012-05-03T17:19:36.537+01:00Announcing Integration with BigCommerce<p>We are excited to announce the launch of our BigCommerce accounting integrations. The supported accounting applications for integration, at the moment, are e-conomic, FreshBooks, KashFlow or Xero (for future reference, please check our homepage for an up-to-date list of supported applications).</p> <p>The integration will seamlessly import BigCommerce orders as invoices, customers and where applicable, products into the accounting application with many useful features (e.g. automatically creating payment records and credit notes), saving the store owner hours of tedious data re-entry.</p> <p>To find out more about the integration, please visit our <a href="http://www.carrytheone.co.uk/bigcommerce.html">BigCommerce Page</a>.</p>carrytheonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08756199086766144327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900545314828952811.post-77453008057611762492011-09-20T15:39:00.000+01:002011-09-20T15:48:27.006+01:00Turn Salesforce Opportunities into Invoices in your Favourite Accounting Application<b>Announcing the Upcoming Integration with Salesforce</b><br /><br />We are pleased to announce the upcoming addition of the customer relationship management (CRM) application Salesforce to the CarryTheOne integration platform. The addition will allow businesses and individuals using Salesforce to import their sales into e-conomic, FreshBooks, KashFlow or Xero.<br /><br />We've done our best to make the integration as robust and flexible as possible and we've made some significant updates to our core platform for a clear configuration experience. There are multiple ways to handle tax, an option to define payment methods using a custom field in Salesforce (this is useful if you want to record payments under different bank accounts in your accounts software) and similarly a way to identify shipping lines in case you want special handling.<br /><br /><b>How Do You Want It to Work?</b> <br /><br />We are in the final stages of a working integration, but it's not too late for suggestions and feature requests. In fact, we want to ask you how you want the integration to work. If you use Salesforce and are interested in this integration, please write to us using our <a href="http://www.carrytheone.co.uk/contact.html">contact form</a> to tell us your requirements (select "Salesforce Suggestion" as Nature of Request).<br /><br /><b>How it Currently Works</b><br /><br />An opportunity is imported as an invoice in your accounting app when it reaches the desired "trigger" stage, e.g. "Closed Won". If you have chosen to use payment methods, you can select a different trigger stage and other options per payment method. The options you have will depend on the accounts app with which you are integrating.<br /><br /><u>Features</u><br /><ul><li>Invoice reference: you can enter a custom Salesforce field to use for the order number/reference on the invoice.</li><li>Credit notes: automatically create a credit note in your accounting app if an opportunity reaches a certain stage.</li></ul><br /><u>Tax Options</u><br /><ol><li>Set tax per opportunity product line using a Salesforce custom field</li><li>Set tax per product using a Salesforce custom field</li><li>Set tax per opportunity using a Salesforce custom field</li><li>Set a global tax rate in the integrations configuration</li><li>Tax does not apply</li></ol>For options 2,4 and 5 you can also choose to utilise a custom opportunity checkbox field for exempting certain opportunities from tax.<br /><br />The custom fields referred to above, if you choose to use them, will probably need to be created in your Salesforce account. This is easy enough to do:<br /><br />Click on your user name on the top-right of your screen &gt; Setup &gt; under 'App Setup' in the left menu, click Customize &gt; click the type of object to which your adding the field (e.g. Opportunities, Products) &gt; Fields &gt; where it says '[object type] Custom Fields', click 'new'.<br /><br /><b>Testing</b><br /><br />If you are interested in trying out our Salesforce integration before it is launched, please <a href="http://www.carrytheone.co.uk/contact.html">get in touch</a> with us as well. We will shortly open up the integration for testing and send you details of how you can try it out. You will need a free <a href="http://developer.force.com/">Salesforce Developer account</a>.carrytheonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08756199086766144327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900545314828952811.post-20207272362066197942011-08-16T19:20:00.002+01:002011-09-20T12:24:54.849+01:00Announcing Stock Integration with KashFlowDear existing users and prospective users,
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<br />We are excited to announce the beta launch of a stock integration feature for our KashFlow integrations. The ability to integrate stock management has just recently been made possible by KashFlow and we have jumped on the heels of this to bring you this much desired functionality.
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<br />We praise KashFlow for adding stock management into their product and making this available for integration. This feature is not just sought after but often a requirement for online businesses selling products and so opens up KashFlow to a whole new market of potential users. We are confident that KashFlow will be rewarded for the decision that many other SaaS accounting application providers are hesitant to take.
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<br />The stock functionality in KashFlow at the moment is quite basic, but it is on the right track and no doubt, going by their multilateral efforts to improve their product, will see many improvements in the time ahead.
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">This feature is in BETA</span>
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<br />While it is safe to try this feature, if a problem occurs it may cause your integration to stop. If this occurs, you need only to disable this feature in order to resume your integration. We will work to resolve any potential bugs as soon as possible and provide a final release.
<br />carrytheonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08756199086766144327noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900545314828952811.post-35062288699019673432011-07-11T12:12:00.003+01:002011-07-11T12:34:06.963+01:00Great News - Automatic Payment Records in XeroWe are pleased to announce that our Xero integration can now automatically create payment records for your invoices.<br /><br />Previously it was not possible to approve invoices remotely and so create payments for newly created invoices. Xero recently removed this limitation and we have now implemented the new functionality.<br /><br />You can choose whether you want your integration to do this per payment method, choose the bank account for payments and whether to apply a clearing delay.<br /><br />We are confident this enhancement will save many of you a lot of time and make your accounting yet less tedious.<br /><br />To enable this functionality, head on to your <a href="https://www.carrytheone.co.uk/cto/live/cp/auth.php">control panel</a> and click to configure your integration.<br /><br />We thank Xero for listening to its users and making this possible.carrytheonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08756199086766144327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900545314828952811.post-38896806615588103962011-03-29T12:29:00.004+01:002011-03-29T12:43:41.630+01:00Inventory Support Added to Xero IntegrationWe are pleased to announce support for Xero's inventory system which was recently made available on their API (what we use to connect with them).<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">What does it mean?</span><br /><br />If you choose to use the inventory system, CTO will specify item codes when creating your invoices in Xero. This will enable you to track the sales performance of your items in Xero and better utilise reporting.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">How does it work?</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />For every product invoice line with a product/item code set in your shopping cart app, if the code already exists in Xero, CTO will simply specify it on the invoice line, if not, CTO will create the item for you in Xero.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;">How do I use it?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">1. Log into the CTO control panel<br />2. Click to configure your Xero integration<br />3. Select to use Xero's inventory system<br />4. Click save<br /></span>carrytheonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08756199086766144327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900545314828952811.post-82484139402342948522010-12-12T18:10:00.002+00:002011-03-30T18:15:59.371+01:00Xero Integrations Are Now Seamless!We are pleased to announce that our Xero integrations integrations now work seamlessly (set it and forget it). Previously a limitation in Xero's API meant that you had to authorise CTO every time you wanted to have your invoices imported. Thanks to 'long-life' authorisation made available to Xero Partners this is no longer an issue.<br /><br />Our existing Xero clients have automatically been upgraded to the new system.carrytheonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08756199086766144327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900545314828952811.post-76828549452560006092010-03-29T15:49:00.004+01:002011-03-29T16:22:21.124+01:00e-conomic Integration - Technical OverviewThe e-conomic integration is a little bit more complex than our other integrations because of e-conomic's inventory system. The plus side is you can use e-conomic's stock control and the integration will utilises it.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">So what makes it more complex?</span><br /><br />Basically, e-conomic needs to have a registered product (a product added in e-conomic) specified for every invoice line created (including shipping lines). The product needs to be set up with the correct tax.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">You have two options</span><ol><li>You can create all your products in e-conomic manually</li><li>You can have CTO create products in e-conomic on-the-fly as they are ordered in your store</li></ol>You choose which of the two options you want when setting up your integration.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Shipping products/items?</span><br /><br />Currently you need to manually create a product in e-conomic for each of your store's shipping methods and assign it to a product group with the correct tax settings.<br /><br />Don't worry, when you start to configure your integration, CTO will tell you which products you need to set up in e-conomic.carrytheonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08756199086766144327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900545314828952811.post-69087364115607430132010-02-23T16:45:00.005+00:002011-03-30T18:06:34.217+01:00e-conomic Added!We are pleased to announce the addition of <a href="http://www.e-conomic.com">e-conomic</a> to our integrations platform for integration with Magento, osCommerce, Zen Cart, CRE and Shopify.<br /><br />e-conomic is the first of our supported accounting apps with full stock control / inventory as an option. Because of this the configuration is slightly more complicated than with our other integrations (we'll post a technical overview shortly), but most businesses will find this to be small change compared to the benefit of automated stock updates.<br /><br />e-conomic is a multinational company with offices throughout Europe and already have over 30,000 businesses using their SaaS accountancy software.carrytheonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08756199086766144327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900545314828952811.post-2450646586078796512009-12-16T01:35:00.003+00:002012-09-17T22:00:53.833+01:00Xero Added to the CarryTheOne PlatformHello,<br /><br />We're really pleased to announce that Xero has gone live on the CTO platform.<br /><br />You can now import from Magento, Shopify, CRE Loaded, Zen Cart and osCommerce into Xero.<br /><br />Here's a short video (which are getting better!) to demonstrate how it works:<br /><br /><b>Update:</b> Since December 2010 our Xero integrations are seamless - there is no import button to press: orders are imported automatically in real time.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1Cd-6coHJhU&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1Cd-6coHJhU&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>carrytheonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08756199086766144327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900545314828952811.post-24827271485714365872009-11-20T17:58:00.000+00:002011-03-30T18:05:24.524+01:00Magento Integration ReleasedThe Magento integration is now live on our platform ready for integration with one of our supported Accounting Apps.carrytheonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08756199086766144327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900545314828952811.post-37052382471013345802009-10-05T22:38:00.002+01:002009-10-05T22:46:36.610+01:00E-commerce integration with Xero is next!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.carrytheone.co.uk/uploaded_images/xero-logo-hires-RGB-783742.png"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 160px; height: 160px;" src="http://www.carrytheone.co.uk/uploaded_images/xero-logo-hires-RGB-783740.png" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Just a quick announcement that Xero is next in line to get the CarryTheOne treatment!<br /><br />When complete, you will be able to export orders from Magento, Shopify and osCommerce stores into Xero in real time.<br /><br />Lots of people have already contacted us requesting information about when Xero will be available.<br /><br />We've learnt the hard way that any prediction we give will be wrong - but we are working on it now and we hope it will be soon :-)carrytheonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08756199086766144327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900545314828952811.post-26988695753319095222009-10-05T21:38:00.002+01:002009-10-05T21:40:31.041+01:00Magento Alpha ReleaseWe are readying the Alpha Release of Magento for this week.<br /><br />If anyone would like to contribute their time by testing it and helping us to squish bugs, please use the contact form to get in touch!<br /><br />It is available for KashFlow at the moment, but we will shortly be adding support for FreshBooks and Xero.carrytheonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08756199086766144327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900545314828952811.post-9176037106963037072009-09-27T21:30:00.003+01:002009-09-27T21:35:59.004+01:00osCommerce & CRE Loaded Integration with FreshBooks - Video DemoHere's a screencast of our osCommerce &amp; CRE Loaded integration with FreshBooks.<div><br /></div><div>If you want to have a go yourself, please check out our live demo area:</div><div><a href="https://www.carrytheone.co.uk/sites/crefb/">https://www.carrytheone.co.uk/sites/crefb/</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0wSN3wTZ9Lw&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0wSN3wTZ9Lw&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>carrytheonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08756199086766144327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900545314828952811.post-38620750924080912432009-09-18T14:32:00.005+01:002009-09-18T14:40:04.821+01:00Announcing Magento is the next cart to be added<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.carrytheone.co.uk/uploaded_images/magento_logo-728111.gif"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 140px; height: 140px;" src="http://www.carrytheone.co.uk/uploaded_images/magento_logo-728110.gif" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />We've had a lot of enquiries from store owners asking if or when <a href="http://www.magentocommerce.com/">Magento</a> will be added to the platform.<br /><br />Since the start of September we have been evaluating Magento and planning the integration.<br /><br />It is complicated in that Magento is still very new, and much is not documented.<br /><br />However, we have made good progress and expect Magento to launch in October.<div><br /></div><div>Magento will integrate with both FreshBooks and KashFlow accountancy &amp; bookkeeping software solutions.<br /><br />If you would like to be notified when Magento is turned live, please use the contact form and let us know.</div>carrytheonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08756199086766144327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900545314828952811.post-41171277347320332552009-09-18T12:53:00.002+01:002009-09-18T14:20:05.981+01:00osCommerce store not set-up for tax?We have just implemented an update for osCommerce, Zen and CRE Loaded store owners.<br /><br />A few of our customers had not configured their websites to charge VAT - but they were registered.<br /><br />So we have put in an option to override the site's tax settings, and treat the order value as including VAT.<br /><br />When the orders are imported, we automatically calculate the VAT component and insert it in the invoice.carrytheonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08756199086766144327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900545314828952811.post-75071217051997043122009-09-12T10:46:00.008+01:002009-09-15T02:30:25.330+01:00Shopify Added to CarryTheOne<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.shopify.com/?ref=carrytheone"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 257px; height: 149px;" src="http://www.carrytheone.co.uk/uploaded_images/shopify_logo-794429.png" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Shopify is an incredible e-commerce platform that we've raved about for ages.<div><br /></div><div>It is no accident that Shopify was the first shopping cart to be added after FreshBooks. </div><div><br /></div><div>Both are pioneering Canadian SAAS software providers taking the world by storm.</div><div><br /></div><div>But back to Shopify - if you want a well designed web 2.0 online store, then these are the guys to choose.</div><div><br /></div><div>And that is the key difference - Shopify really emphasises the design of your store - if you sell beautiful products then it should always be in a beautiful setting.</div><div><br /></div><div>They have lots of pre-made templates to choose from, or you can purchase a bespoke one. </div><div><br /></div><div>Unlike many subscription based e-commerce services, there is no limit to the customisation you can do to get the perfect look and feel for your store.</div><div><br /></div><div>If you need a perfectly formed e-commerce store then check out <a href="http://www.shopify.com/?ref=carrytheone">Shopify</a>...and try out our automatic integration with <a href="http://www.freshbooks.com/">FreshBooks</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CYn-SlgjgGk&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CYn-SlgjgGk&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></div>carrytheonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08756199086766144327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900545314828952811.post-11883927428400628912009-08-28T00:35:00.001+01:002009-09-12T00:40:56.527+01:00FreshBooks Integration<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.carrytheone.co.uk/uploaded_images/freshbooks2-774091.gif"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 151px; height: 80px;" src="http://www.carrytheone.co.uk/uploaded_images/freshbooks2-774089.gif" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />We are very pleased to announce that FreshBooks has now been added to the CarryTheOne platform.<div><br /></div><div>FreshBooks has a stunning 1 million small business users in Canada, USA &amp; internationally.</div><div><br /></div><div>We are looking forward to welcoming lots of new FreshBooks users to the platform!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>carrytheonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08756199086766144327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900545314828952811.post-60197240955436351182009-08-18T00:16:00.003+01:002009-09-14T14:25:32.803+01:00Zen Cart Added to CarryTheOne<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.carrytheone.co.uk/uploaded_images/zen-cart-logo-725678.png"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 146px; height: 40px;" src="http://www.carrytheone.co.uk/uploaded_images/zen-cart-logo-725677.png" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Zen Cart has always been one of our favourite osCommerce versions.<div><br /></div><div>The developers have added all the best and most stable contributions to give a really full featured shopping cart.</div><div><br /></div><div>So we are very happy to announce that we now fully support Zen Cart.</div><div><br /></div><div>Out of the box it is compatible with all international taxes, vouchers &amp; coupons and shipping modules.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.zen-cart.com/">Visit Zen Cart</a></div>carrytheonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08756199086766144327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900545314828952811.post-12606707404751053992009-08-12T16:08:00.000+01:002009-09-12T00:33:03.617+01:00CTO Version 2 is out!We've been very busy at CarryTheOne working behind the scenes to build a new and better version of the software.<div><br /></div><div>Our first release linked OSCommerce and KashFlow. If we had wanted to add anything else, it would have required another standalone development.</div><div><br /></div><div>So instead we have built our "general architecture" which enables anything to be linked to anything else.</div><div><br /></div><div>What that means is that we can now link any shopping cart every built with any accountancy software developed...or yet to be developed!</div><div><br /></div><div>And not just that...but we can add payment gateways, Point of Sale systems - anything you need.</div><div><br /></div><div>We have also dramatically improved the interface and made it much simpler to set-up and configure your software integrations.</div><div><br /></div><div>Hope you like it!</div>carrytheonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08756199086766144327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900545314828952811.post-62443862796986795322009-05-15T14:57:00.004+01:002009-05-26T23:49:46.691+01:00How much time could CTO save you?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">We did a quick survey of some of our users to find out how much time they used to spend on inputting invoices.<br /><br />Previously we'd found that a staggering 80% of online store operators either copy and pasted orders from their admin to their accounts or printed them off and date inputted them.<br /><br />60% took about 3 minutes but a hefty 25% took 5 minutes or more.<br /><br />So we crunched some figures and came up with this little table (based on taking 3 minutes per invoice):<br /></span></span><br /><table width="372" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 200%; font-size: 10px; color: #000000;"><tbody> <tr> <td width="108"> </td> <td width="88" align="right">Hours Per Month</td> <td width="88" align="right">Days Per Year</td> <td width="88" align="right">Weeks Per Year</td> </tr> <tr style="padding-bottom: 3px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: #666666;"> <td align="left">2 Orders Per Day</td> <td align="right">3</td> <td align="right">5.2</td> <td align="right">1</td> </tr> <tr style="padding-bottom: 3px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: #666666;"> <td align="left">5 Orders Per Day</td> <td align="right">8</td> <td align="right">13</td> <td align="right">Over 2</td> </tr> <tr style="padding-bottom: 3px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: #666666;"> <td align="left">10 Orders Per Day</td> <td align="right">15</td> <td align="right">26</td> <td align="right">Over 5</td> </tr> <tr style="padding-bottom: 3px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: #666666;"> <td align="left">20 Orders Per Day</td> <td align="right">30</td> <td align="right">52</td> <td align="right">Over 10</td> </tr> <tr style="padding-bottom: 3px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: #666666; border-bottom-style: solid;"> <td align="left">50 Orders Per Day</td> <td align="right">76</td> <td align="right">130</td> <td align="right">26</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left">100 Orders Per Day</td> <td align="right">152</td> <td align="right">261</td> <td align="right">52</td> </tr></tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /><br />If you factor in the time spent correcting inaccurate invoices (data inputting always leads to some errors) and generating credit notes, then there are even greater savings.<br /><br />These are back of the envelope calculations of course. We don't think many companies will have full time data inputters putting invoices in manually.<br /><br />However, I used to run a store that regularly did 30 orders per day and at busy periods over 150 orders. We didn't input any invoices, but put in aggregate monthly figures into our Sage accounts.<br /><br />The problem with that?<br />- We regularly over-estimated VAT due to returns or exchanges;<br />- After the VAT inspection we were told that our records weren't accurate enough and we *should* be inputting each invoice;<br />- Our web stores lacked the reporting sophistication to allow us to spot our best customers;<br />- We couldn't easily aggregate sales from our 2 different web sites and Ebay.<br /><br />If you have a brand new store or only do a few orders a month, then CTO is still a great time saving solution - why not try our</span></span><a href="https://www.carrytheone.co.uk/pricing.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Free 45 Day trial</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">!?</span></span>carrytheonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08756199086766144327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8900545314828952811.post-46011990403687053912009-05-08T18:59:00.002+01:002009-05-08T19:03:16.744+01:00CarryTheOne SurveyWe have a little survey for you.<br /><br />If you didn't get a pop-up invitation, here it is:<br /><a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=8ENnh84Aq8ZZ7zpTs6fYIw_3d_3d">Click Here to take survey</a><br /><br />Only 12 questions, so it shouldn't take much longer than 5 minutes.<br /><br />It would be incredibly useful if people took the time to complete it. <br /><br />While we have a couple of bug fixes and enhancements to get ready for the OSCommerce integration, we are rearing to go on....new shopping software, payment platforms and more.<br /><br />I won't tell you which ones we're actively looking at...but if you open up the survey you can tell!<br /><br />Thank you in advance.carrytheonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08756199086766144327noreply@blogger.com0